910 GEOLOGY OF OHIO.. 
of cannel. On the farm owned by Mrs. Snelling, one mile to the south- 
east of the mines, the cannel is 2 feet thick, but a mile further, on 
Leonard Cook’s land, it has run down to 8 inches. 
The coal is fairly steady in all of the present workings of the mine. 
It nowhere falls below 3 feet, and it rises above 4 feet only in the main 
swamps of the seam. It probably averages 33 feet. The roof occa- 
sionally makes trouble, clay slips letting down everything to the lime- 
stone. Posts are set about 3 feet apart in the rooms. The floor is 
somewhat irregular, rolling so much as to interrupt drainage to some 
extent, and confusing the normal dip. There is nothing in this, how- 
ever, to obstruct any systematic or continuous workings, if such shall 
at any time be established here. 
Quite a large acreage has been worked out in the 50 years in which 
the coal has been mined, but no one is able to say just how much. The 
miners who know most about the workings put the estimate of the 
exhausted area as high as ten acres. Counting in the coal that has been 
passed by, and so lost, it is possible that as much as ten acres have been 
overrun. There is still abundant opportunity to drive entries in upon 
solid coal. 
The seam is mined by bearing in at the top and then by blasting 
where opportunity offers. One keg of powder brings about 50 tons 
of coal. A miner must work hard to get out 2 tons per day. The 
price of mining is about $1.00 per ton. A royalty is paid of 40 cents 
per ton. The coal is mainly sold for neighborhood use, a large territory 
around finding in this mine the only home supply. The coal is used in 
stoves as well as in grates, and with equal acceptance. 
More or less coal is sent out by rail every year to the neighboring 
towns, and a little has been carried to distant markets, as Washington, 
Baltimore and New York. It isor has been used in the gas-works of 
Newark, Delaware, Sandusky, Dayton and Columbus. The long haul 
(4 miles) to the railroad is exp:rsive, making the coal cost $2.75 to 
$3.00, on board the cars. The ccal sells at the bank’s mouth at $1.80. 
The cannel was formerly turned to account for coal oil distilla- 
tion, quite an expensive plant bcirg established here before the develop- 
ment of Pennsylvania petroleum. | 
As to the character of the cannel, it is to be regretted that no new 
statements can be made. It runs rather high in ash and the character 
of the product is often damaged by the miner’s sending out a 2-inch 
